Night Diner

Back when i was seeing the waitress
I met a ghost at the diner counter
I dunno, it was three am or so -
that nevertime where tired cranky and mellow

become one weird sensation

And They Wonder Why
Anthony Venutolo
2009

from Bukowski's Basement Blog

https://bukowskisbasement.blogspot.com/2009/05/and-they-wonder-why-prose-poem.html

On Noir Set #53

Chinatown

Clash By Night

Union City

Asphalt Jungle

Little Drummer Girl (2018)

One Way Street

Collateral

Postman Always Rings Twice (1946)

A Prophet

Third Man

Sweet Smell of Success

Road to Perdition

Secret Beyond the Door

Place of Her

This town is full of guys like you

And you're looking for someone to take the place of her

You must be reading my mail

And you're bitter 'cause she left you

That's why you're drinking in this bar

Well only suckers fall in love with perfect strangers

I Never Talk to Strangers
(Waits)
Tom Waits

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Ida Wyman

And the Trust

            Man cannot live without a permanent trust in something indestructible within himself, though both the indestructible element and the trust may remain permanently hidden from him.

Franz Kafka

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Vertigo
Hitchcock

Tanya

 

Touch of  Evil
Orson Welles
1958

The Trap You Set

Life in the Shadows #61

Angel Heart

Sunset Boulevard

Vertigo

Dementia

Babylon Berlin

Asphalt Jungle

Bound

Les Diaboliques

Blade Runner

The Trial

They Shoot Horses Don't They

Third Man

Nightmare Alley (2021)

The Prowler

Se7en

Strangers on a Train

Reservoir Dogs

Touch of Evil

Memento

Man with the Golden Arm

Lost Highway

Stardust

Stardust 
(Carmichael/Parrish)
Sonny Stitt

The Same Thing

         They talk about the people and the proletariat. I talk about the suckers and the mugs - it's the same thing. They have their five-year plans, so have i.

(Harry Lime)
Third Man

1949

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Mateo Baldasare

Without Sound

            Under the thinning fog the surf curled and creamed, almost without sound, like a thought trying to form itself on the edge of consciousness.

The Big Sleep
Raymond Chandler
1939

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Scripps Pier

Even Bad Luck is Some Kind of Luck #157

Killer That Stalked New York

Mob City

I Want To Live

Angel Heart

Third Man

Farewell My Lovely

Gun Crazy

Bad Day at Black Rock

The Servant

Nickel Ride

Bitter Stems

Body Heat

Touch of Evil

The Crooked Way

Mr Klein

Point Blank

Lady from Shanghai

Conformist

Woman in a Dressing Gown

Hot Spot

The Killing

Man on Fire

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